I. Catalán-Serra © I. Catalán-Serra

Dear ECCO friends and family,

It is our pleasure to introduce our conversation with the National Representative of Belgium at ECCO, Triana Lobatón.

Triana is originally from Spain, but is currently based in Gent. In this wide-range conversation, we cover different areas including an introduction to IBD care in Belgium and BIRD, the experience of living and working in a different country, research opportunities, the future of ECCO and IBD care in Europe and much more!

We hope you enjoy it!

Dear ECCO friends and family,

We are delighted to announce the new series of podcast of the Journal of Crohns and Colitis (JCC)! The editorial team of ECCO News is taking over the task to bring you the best articles of JCC in a short and entertaining interview format. The authors will comment on their findings and we will discuss future directions and new areas of research in the topic and in the field of IBD.

In this first episode, we will dive into new applications of intestinal ultrasound in IBD and its potential as non-invasive method with Dr. de Voogd from Amstrerdam UMC from the article entitled: «Intestinal Ultrasound Early on in Treatment Follow-up Predicts Endoscopic Response to Anti-TNFα Treatment in Crohn’s Disease».

Welcome to our new podcast: Meet the JCC Authors !

Nuha Yassin © Nuha Yassin

Dear ECCO friends and family,

It is my pleasure to introduce the National Representatives of France at ECCO, Maeva Charkaoui & Anthony Buisson. We hope you enjoy getting to know them through this interview.

Best Wishes,

Nuha Yassin

Consultant Colorectal Surgeon

ECCO News Associate Editor

Brigida Barberio © Brigida Barberio

Dear ECCO Friends and Community,

It is our pleasure to introduce our conversation with the National Representatives of Italy at ECCO, Sara Onali and  Marco Daperno. Sara Onali is an Associate Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Cagliari, and Marco Daperno is a Gastroenterology Consultant at Mauriziano Hospital of Torino. In this conversation, Sara and Marco tell us about their background and expertise and they talk about our National IBD society, IG-IBD. Particularly, they tell us what IG-IBD offers to its members and which are the opportunities for research and publication with it. 

In addition, they summarize the differences in IBD care among the different centers in Italy.

We hope you enjoy it!

Brigida Barberio

Dear ECCO friends and family,

Please join us for the second episode of our podcast series Meet the JCC Authors!

We are thrilled to have with us two brilliant colleagues: Dr. Maria Chaparro from Hospital Universitario de La Princesa in Madrid, Spain and Dr. Mette Julsgaard from Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark. We will be discussing their recent paper in the Journal of Crohns and Colitis titled: "Surgery due to Inflammatory Bowel Disease During Pregnancy: Mothers and Offspring Outcomes From an ECCO CONFER Multicentre Case Series [Scar Study]". This is a seminal study organized under the auspices of the ECCO CONFER initiative and it really highlights how this collaborative approach can aid in the evaluation and understanding of rare IBD populations and subgroups. So come with us as we take a deep dive with the authors in the evolution of pregnancies and offspring after IBD surgery during pregnancy and hear them explain to us their findings and take home messages from examining the largest series to date of this extremely serious situation.

Enjoy and do not forget to spread the word about our new podcast to your friends and colleagues!

Ignacio Catalán-Serra © I. Catalán-Serra

Dear ECCO friends,

Welcome to this wide-range conversation with the National Representatives of Israel at ECCO Bella Ungar and Ayal Hirsch, where we got to know more about IBD care in Israel and we discussed some hot areas of interest like: diet in IBD, new technologies and the need for multidisciplinary care and much more!

Hope you enjoy it!

Ignacio Catalán-Serra
ECCO News Associate Editor

Dear ECCO friends and family,

Please join us for the 3^rd episode of our podcast series Meet the JCC Authors!

It is my pleasure to introduce Mads Damsgaard Wewer from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He talks about the recently in JCC published paper: Disease Activity Patterns of Inflammatory Bowel Disease—A Danish Nationwide Cohort Study 1995–2018. We hope you enjoy getting to know Mads and learn more about his journal article.

Enjoy and do not forget to spread the word about our new podcast to your friends and colleagues!

Best Wishes,

Nuha Yassin

Consultant Colorectal Surgeon

ECCO News Associate Editor

Dear ECCO Friends and Family,

In this new episode of our podcast “Meet the JCC Author”, it is my pleasure to introduce Philip Harvey from the Royal Wolverhamptom NHS Hospital, UK.

He talks about his paper recently published in JCC: “Venous Thromboembolism following discharge from Hospital in Patients Admitted for Inflammatory Bowel Disease”.

We hope you enjoy it and do not forget to spread the word about our new podcast to your friends and colleagues!

Best Wishes,

Brigida Barberio

ECCO News Associate Editor

Spyros Siakavellas © Spyros Siakavellas

Dear ECCO friends,

Welcome to this interesting discussion with the ECCO National Representatives of Turkey Nalan Gülsen Ünal and Asli Ormeci. We had a great talk mainly about the challenges of treating IBD in Turkey a country with significant diversity in the circumstances of healthcare but also for telemedicine, holistic care implementation of new developments in our field such as biomarkers and intestinal ultrasound and even more topics!

I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

Spyros Siakavellas
ECCO News Associate Editor

Welcome to our series of interviews with the Author. I am Nuha Yassin, a consultant colorectal surgeon in Birmingham, UK, and one of the associate editors for ECCO News. I am delighted to be joined by Parul Tandon from Toronto, Canada.